From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:43:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about comint field changes (`comint-prompt-regexp removal').
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Add note about comint field changes (`comint-prompt-regexp removal').
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index fe9855fa73d..dcf8b55e992 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -596,6 +596,15 @@ mode.
 
 ** Comint (subshell) changes
 
+By default, comint no longer uses the variable `comint-prompt-regexp' to
+distiguish prompts from user-input.  Instead, it notices which parts of
+the text were output by the process, and which entered by the user, and
+attaches `field' properties to allow emacs commands to use this information.
+Common movement commands, notably beginning-of-line, respect field
+boundaries in a fairly natural manner.
+To disable this feature, and use the old behavior, set the variable
+`comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields' to a non-nil value.
+
 Comint now includes new features to send commands to running processes
 and redirect the output to a designated buffer or buffers.